The coast road curving towards the snow-covered Vatnajökull ice cap in low evening light

Southeast Iceland, local experiences from a family run business

Local guides. Personal experiences. Real stories.

Cruise excursions from Djúpivogur and Höfn. Private and bespoke tours across the Southeast, and from Reykjavík — always guided by locals. Second generation, since 1985.

1985First tour operations, boats on Jökulsárlón.
Djúpivogur & HöfnBased on this coast, available in Reykjavík.
Second generationFamily owned, and the third generation tagging along.
Why us

Forty years on this coast, and still on it.

Local expertise

Our guides grew up on this coast. They know which viewpoint is worth the extra ten minutes, and when the weather is about to turn.

Second generation, and the third tagging along

Family owned since 1985, when we put the first boats on Jökulsárlón.

Personal perspective

Our drivers and guides come from the east. Each and everyone offers a unique perspective on the land in the shadow of Vatnajökull.

A waterfall dropping over layered basalt into a river below a moss-covered mountainside
The region

A kilometre of ice, and everything it built.

Seven active volcanoes sleep under the ice cap. The outwash plains, the glacial rivers, the black sand, the icebergs at the shore — all of it is the glacier's work. This is the landscape we drive through every day.

See the region
Guðbrandur in a small boat on Jökulsárlón in 1985, a wall of glacier ice behind him
We have been taking people out onto this coast since 1985 — and we still live on it.
Palli, second generation · Guðbrandur on Jökulsárlón, 1985 Our story
Shop local

The places we would send our own family.

We point guests toward the family businesses we grew up alongside — cafés, farms and guesthouses between Djúpivogur and Höfn. No commission, no arrangement. Just people we know.

Meet our local partners
Guests and Icelandic horses in an open field beside a Vatnajökull Travel coach, the glacier on the horizon

Questions about a call day, or a private tour?

We answer the same day. Ask for the programme, or tell us the day you have in mind.

Get in touch →
palli@vatnajokull.is +354 894-1617 Djúpivogur & Höfn, Southeast Iceland